The principal goals of experimental psychopathology (EPP) research are to offer insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of mental disorders and to provide a stable ground for the development of clinical interventions. The main message of the present article is that those goals are better served by the adoption of Bayesian statistics than by the continued use of null-hypothesis significance test...

TinTO is an experimental system aiming at demonstrating the usefulness and feasibility of applying conventional SQL queries for analyzing a wide spectrum of data streams. As application area we have chosen the analysis of streams of stock market data, mainly because this kind of application exhibits sufficiently many of those characteristics for which relational query technology can be reasonab...

A series of monte carlo studies were performed to as­ sess the extent to which different inference procedures robustly output reasonable belief values in the context of increasing levels of judgmental imprecision. It was found that, when com­ pared to an equal-weights linear model, the Bayesian procedures are more likely to deduce strong support for a hypothesis. But, the Bayesian procedures ar...

POINT 1 Management of crops, commercialized or protected species, plagues or life-cycle evolution are subjects requiring comparisons among different demographic strategies. The simpler methods fail in relating changes in vital rates with changes in population viability whereas more complex methods lack accuracy by neglecting interactions among vital rates. POINT 2 The difference between the f...

Computer models to simulate physical phenomena are now widely available in engineering and science. Before relying on a computer model, a natural first step is often to compare its output with physical or field data, to assess whether the computer model reliably represents the real world. Field data, when available, can also be used to calibrate or tune unknown parameters in the computer model....

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The choice of single-molar implant design is difficult because of a lack of controlled, quantitative biomechanical analyses. PURPOSE This study determined the effect of 3 single-molar implant designs on implant strains under a variety of homologous loading conditions. MATERIAL AND METHODS On each implant abutment, 4 strain gauges were placed axially at 90 degrees to eac...

This paper describes a novel parameterization for lightning-produced NOx (LNOx) developed for cloud resolving models (CRM), a topic appropriate for publication in ACP. In addition, sensitivity studies are carried out in large detail to select the most important parameters and to point out which parameter values fit the observations best. Such comprehensive sensitivity studies concerning LNOx pa...

In this project I investigate the use and possible misuse of p values in papers published in five (high-ranked) journals in experimental psychology. I use a data set of over 135'000 p values from more than five thousand papers. I inspect (1) the way in which the p values are reported and (2) their distribution. The main findings are following: first, it appears that some authors choose the mode...

Subjective judgments regarding information are important for the design of information systems. This study examines the endowment effect in the context of evaluating information. Theoretically, value judgments that affect the demand for information are influenced by ownership rights, a phenomenon known as the endowment effect in trading situations. In a simple computer simulated business game, ...

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